Oprah’s Book Club | Burlington Public Library

by Napolitano, Ann

Book - 2023

Oprah's 100th book club selection! Hello Beautiful follows the story of the four Padovano sisters, who live in Pilsen, a working-class neighborhood of Ch...Show more Oprah's 100th book club selection! Hello Beautiful follows the story of the four Padovano sisters, who live in Pilsen, a working-class neighborhood of Chicago. The girls’ close-knit, rambunctious family is forever changed when the eldest, Julia, marries a young man with a tragic past that threatens their future together. Also available in audio and eBook. Show less

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Bittersweet

How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole

by Cain, Susan

Book - 2022

Oprah's 99th book club selection. This nonfiction title that explores how we deal with sadness. Not by denying it. Not by surrendering to it. But by ackn...Show more Oprah's 99th book club selection. This nonfiction title that explores how we deal with sadness. Not by denying it. Not by surrendering to it. But by acknowledging it. Even if, at times, it seems self-defeating because: We’re all supposed to be happy, right? Or at least try to be happy? Also available in audio and eBook. Show less

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Demon Copperhead

by Kingsolver, Barbara

Book - 2022

Oprah's 98th book club selection. The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to s...Show more Oprah's 98th book club selection. The teenage son of an Appalachian single mother who dies when he is eleven uses his good looks, wit, and instincts to survive foster care, child labor, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Oprah says, “It’s an absolutely riveting read.” Also available in audio and eBook. Show less

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That Bird Has My Wings

The Autobiography of An Innocent Man

by Masters, Jarvis Jay

Book - 2009

Oprah's 97th book club selection. Jarvis Masters has been incarcerated in California’s San Quentin State Prison for the past 41 years. Oprah read the boo...Show more Oprah's 97th book club selection. Jarvis Masters has been incarcerated in California’s San Quentin State Prison for the past 41 years. Oprah read the book shortly after it was first published by HarperOne, in 2009, and it left a strong impression on her: “His story, of a young boy victimized by addiction, poverty, violence, the foster care system, and later the justice system, profoundly touched me then, and still does today,” said Oprah. Show less

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Nightcrawling

by Mottley, Leila

Book - 2022

Oprah's 96th book club selection. "Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that call...Show more Oprah's 96th book club selection. "Kiara Johnson and her brother Marcus are barely scraping by in a squalid East Oakland apartment complex that calls itself, optimistically, the Royal-Hi. Both have dropped out of high school, their family fractured by death and prison. But while Marcus clings to his dream of rap stardom, Kiara hunts for work to pay their rent-which has now more than doubled-and to keep the 9-year-old boy next door, abandoned by his mother, safe and fed. What begins as a drunken misunderstanding with a stranger one night soon becomes the job Kiara never wanted but now desperately needs: nightcrawling. And her world breaks open even further when her name surfaces in an investigation that exposes her as a key witness in a massive scandal within the Oakland police department."-- Also available in audio and eBook. Show less

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Finding Me

by Davis, Viola

Book - 2022

Oprah's 95th book club selection. “There are so many lessons to be learned from this breathtaking memoir about triumphing over adversity and trauma. Viol...Show more Oprah's 95th book club selection. “There are so many lessons to be learned from this breathtaking memoir about triumphing over adversity and trauma. Viola Davis leaves it all on the page—from her beginnings in South Carolina as the fifth of six children born in a sharecropper’s shack to acclaim as an actor, producer, and philanthropist. I was so moved by this book that I just had to share it with our entire OBC audience," said Oprah. Also available in audio and eBook. Show less

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The Way of Integrity

Finding the Path to your True Self

by Beck, Martha Nibley

Book - 2021

On her 94th pick, Oprah said: “As we all navigate this watershed moment in our collective history, The Way of Integrity provides a road map on the journey...Show more On her 94th pick, Oprah said: “As we all navigate this watershed moment in our collective history, The Way of Integrity provides a road map on the journey to truth and authenticity. Her latest work is filled with aha moments and practical exercises that can guide us as we seek enlightenment.” Also available in eBook. Show less

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Bewilderment

by Powers, Richard

Book - 2021

Oprah's 93rd book club selection. Richard Powers’s intimate novel is about astrobiologist Theo Byrne, who is raising his 9-year-old son after his wife's ...Show more Oprah's 93rd book club selection. Richard Powers’s intimate novel is about astrobiologist Theo Byrne, who is raising his 9-year-old son after his wife's death. It is tender and timely, drawing readers into existential questions about the place of humans in the world. Show less

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The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois

A Novel

by Jeffers, Honorée Fanonne

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Oprah's 92nd book club selection. To come to terms with who she is and what she wants, Ailey, the daughter of an accomplished doctor and a strict schoolt...Show more Oprah's 92nd book club selection. To come to terms with who she is and what she wants, Ailey, the daughter of an accomplished doctor and a strict schoolteacher, embarks on a journey through her family's past, helping her embrace her full heritage, which is the story of the Black experience in itself. Also available in audio and eBook. Show less

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The Sweetness of Water

by Harris, Nathan

Book - 2021

Oprah's 91st book club selection. Set in the fictional town of Old Ox, Georgia, at the very end of the Civil War, Harris’s powerful first novel centers o...Show more Oprah's 91st book club selection. Set in the fictional town of Old Ox, Georgia, at the very end of the Civil War, Harris’s powerful first novel centers on brothers Prentiss and Landry, who are at last leaving the plantation where they’ve spent their entire lives, and grappling with what will come next. “As I read this masterful novel,” Oprah said, “I kept thinking—this young 29-year-old is a first-time author, so how did he do this?” She continued, “As the best writers can do, Nathan takes us back in time, and helps us to feel we are right there with Prentiss and Landry as they get their first taste of freedom. I rooted for them, and feared for them, too.” Also available in audio and eBook. Show less

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Gilead

by Robinson, Marilynne

Book - 2005

Oprah's 90th book club selection. For the first time in the history of the Book Club, Oprah chose four books by the same author at once: the Pulitzer Pr...Show more Oprah's 90th book club selection. For the first time in the history of the Book Club, Oprah chose four books by the same author at once: the Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead, Home, Lila, and Jack by Marilynne Robinson. Together, these sublime novels form a quadrilogy of sorts, all of which takes place in the fictional Iowa town of Gilead. “Marilynne Robinson is one of our greatest living authors,” Oprah said, “and in the Gilead novels she’s written a quartet of masterpieces. The more closely I read them, the more I find to appreciate, and the more they show the way in seeing the beauty in the ordinary.” Show less

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Becoming

by Obama, Michelle

Book - 2018

Oprah's 80th book club selection. An intimate and uplifting memoir by the former First Lady chronicles the experiences that have shaped her remarkable lif...Show more Oprah's 80th book club selection. An intimate and uplifting memoir by the former First Lady chronicles the experiences that have shaped her remarkable life, from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago through her setbacks and achievements in the White House. Also available in audio and eBook. Show less

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